10 Lenticular Lens Manufacturers in 2023
This section provides an overview for lenticular lenses as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 10 lenticular lens manufacturers and their company rankings.
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What Is a Lenticular Lens?
A lenticular lens is a convex lens whose cross section is shaped like a fish cake, and is generally a sheet of multiple elongated convex lenses in a row. By displaying parallax images or videos on a screen with a lenticular lens attached to the screen, it is possible to realize stereoscopic vision with the naked eye.
Uses of Lenticular Lenses
The main applications of Lenticular lenses are "3D stereopsis with the naked eye" and "creation of 2D images whose patterns change depending on the angle from which they are viewed. This is also the case with souvenir cards and key chains, which have lenticular lenses attached to their surfaces. Recently, naked-eye stereoscopic displays that do not require 3D glasses have also been commercialized.
Principles of Lenticular Lenses
Lenticular lenses are often made of materials such as PET or acrylic, and are used as a sheet consisting of a series of long, thin convex lenses with a cross section shaped like a fish cake. By attaching this sheet or printing directly on the back of the sheet, it is possible to obtain effects such as "stereoscopic vision" and "objects seen from different viewing angles".
This effect is produced when light is refracted by lenticular lenses. In order to obtain this effect, it is important that each convex lens of the Lenticular lenses and the target image or video are precisely aligned. If the position is misaligned, it will not be possible to obtain the effect well. Lenticular sheets use a numerical value called "lpi" to indicate the fineness of the surface of the sheet, so it is important to produce images and videos that match this pitch. (For example, 30 lpi means there are 30 lenses per inch, and 100 lpi means there are 100 lenses per inch.)
The viewing angle also changes depending on the refractive index of the lenticular lenses, which is determined by the ratio of the thickness to the number of lines. For the same number of lines, the thicker the lens is, the deeper it is for 3D, and the thinner the lens is, the more it is for 2D.
An Example of Application of Lenticular Lenses
For example, when used as a center information display (CID) for in-vehicle use, a car navigation image on the driver's side and entertainment images such as movies on the passenger's side can be simultaneously generated on a single display. For example, when used as a center information display (CID) for in-vehicle use, a single display can simultaneously generate car navigation images on the driver's side and entertainment images such as movies on the passenger side. When used as a 3D stereoscopic display for the naked eye, two types of images with parallax adapted for the left eye and the right eye are generated, and the conditions of the lenticular lenses are adjusted so that the light from the pixels displaying the respective image data is separated in the direction of the user's left eye and right eye.
List of 10 Lenticular Lens Manufacturers
*Including some distributors, etc.
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Verified Market Research
Lenticular Sheet Market Size And Forecast
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GUANGDONG ZHULI CASTING MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd.
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Optica Publishing Group
Electro-wetting lenticular lens
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Knight Optical
Lenticular Fresnel Lens
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Fusion Optix
Lenticular Sheet
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3DProducts SRL
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Lenticular Lens Manufacturer Ranking
*Including some distributors, etc.Ranking as of March 2023 Globally
Derivation Method| Rank | Company | Click Share |
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| 1 | Lindar Corporation | 50% |
| 2 | Pressure Products Industries | 25% |
| 3 | Verified Market Research | 25% |
Derivation Method
The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the lenticular lens page as of March 2023. Click share is defined as the total number of clicks for all companies during the period divided by the number of clicks for each company.Number of Employees
Newly Established Company
- NTKJ Co., Ltd.: 1978 (45 years ago)
Company with a History
- NTKJ Co., Ltd.: 1978 (45 years ago)
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